Burn Baby Burn
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I have no faith in the local fire department.

Mind you, this is not an easy feat, being a devout volunteer EMT side by side with the FD before we moved and working in my last career as the EMS Youth Corps Director with all the volunteer fire/EMS squads in a NY county the size of Rhode Island.

I remember as an EMT I was clueless with directions and relied on my partner to find our way. But we were just one rig answering a call. And he always knew where to go. (Well ok, except for a few times when we buzzed up and down roads with our sirens on like a dog chasing a rabbit)

But what about 5 fire trucks and one ambulance answering a call next door and it took them a looong time to get there. Does no one know where a popular RV park and beach (that used to be public) are located? There are SIGNS people!

We live on a small lake - as in, you can clearly see little people standing on the other side - and there was a small fire yesterday just around the curve from us. We could boat there in 2 minutes on our lil poor man's boat.

I heard the sirens from a long ways away.
I heard them go past the park.
I heard them turn the corner about 5 few miles past the park.
I saw them round the opposite side of the lake and slow down to see the smoke. Heh. I can just imagine what they were saying then.
I heard their sirens continue around the next corner.
I heard them continue down the road and then around another corner - they're now several miles away again - where they started from.
I heard them finally come around by the park and enter.

The fire chasers (media) found the fire first and sat waiting for the trucks.

I have no faith. None. If our house catches fire, we live on a private road, and we will all surely burn and die.
- posted by Ginxy @ 4/18/2004 03:19:00 PM